What drives solar-EUV jets seen in equatorial coronal holes?

Recent observations of jets in solar coronal holes that include multi-wavelength data such as EUV movies have shown that most of those jets are not driven in the way suggested by the standard model. The standard model proposes that new, closed magnetic field emerges from below the solar surface to i...

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Main Authors: M.L. Adams, R.L. Moore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Results in Physics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379716305617
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description Recent observations of jets in solar coronal holes that include multi-wavelength data such as EUV movies have shown that most of those jets are not driven in the way suggested by the standard model. The standard model proposes that new, closed magnetic field emerges from below the solar surface to interact with already-existing magnetic field that extends high into the corona. Evidence provided by the EUV movies however, shows that the jet is driven out along the ambient field by the eruption of stressed, closed field that has built up at the base of the jet and that the eruption carries a clump of relatively cool solar plasma (called a minifilament) in its core. Our research suggests that the stressed base field is both built up, and triggered to erupt by magnetic flux cancellation, not field emergence. The explosive field in many other solar eruptions of all sizes is built up and triggered in a similar way. We show one example of flux cancellation that leads to a jet in a coronal hole, using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Keywords: Sun, Corona, Coronal holes, Jets, Filaments, Magnetic field
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spelling doaj.art-f4766ef08a22464a88ee05e1426bbbe32022-12-21T22:40:12ZengElsevierResults in Physics2211-37972016-01-01611921193What drives solar-EUV jets seen in equatorial coronal holes?M.L. Adams0R.L. Moore1NASA/MSFC ZP13, Huntsville, AL 35812, United States; Corresponding author.University of Alabama in Huntsville/NSSTC, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805, United StatesRecent observations of jets in solar coronal holes that include multi-wavelength data such as EUV movies have shown that most of those jets are not driven in the way suggested by the standard model. The standard model proposes that new, closed magnetic field emerges from below the solar surface to interact with already-existing magnetic field that extends high into the corona. Evidence provided by the EUV movies however, shows that the jet is driven out along the ambient field by the eruption of stressed, closed field that has built up at the base of the jet and that the eruption carries a clump of relatively cool solar plasma (called a minifilament) in its core. Our research suggests that the stressed base field is both built up, and triggered to erupt by magnetic flux cancellation, not field emergence. The explosive field in many other solar eruptions of all sizes is built up and triggered in a similar way. We show one example of flux cancellation that leads to a jet in a coronal hole, using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Keywords: Sun, Corona, Coronal holes, Jets, Filaments, Magnetic fieldhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379716305617
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What drives solar-EUV jets seen in equatorial coronal holes?
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title What drives solar-EUV jets seen in equatorial coronal holes?
title_full What drives solar-EUV jets seen in equatorial coronal holes?
title_fullStr What drives solar-EUV jets seen in equatorial coronal holes?
title_full_unstemmed What drives solar-EUV jets seen in equatorial coronal holes?
title_short What drives solar-EUV jets seen in equatorial coronal holes?
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